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Welcome and Introductions
Welcome to the ND Founders Community, hosted here on Solo School! This is a space for Solo School members and our larger ND Founders community to come together and support each other, grow together, get and give wisdom and advice, and more.
If you want to introduce yourself, you can use our secret formula:
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What you call yourself (name, pronouns, etc.)
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What you do (or “I want to start a business but I don’t know what”)
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Where you’re based (nearest major city)
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The next step you’re taking in your business (including “figuring out the next step!”)
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Your current hyperfixation (links welcome!)
Here’s mine, for an example:
Hi! I’m Cheryl (she/they). I am the founder of Solo School and ND Founders, but I used to run an agency. I live near Vancouver, BC, Canada, am working on scaling, and am currently hyperfocused on knitting and crochet.
Yay!
Also, you should meet Paula James in here at some point. She is one of our Solo School members' coaches and she does movement work, I bet you'd get along very well!
The lessons guide you through a series of gentle and slow movements in a way that invites you to notice what you feel in your body. Exploring movemenrs in this way can help improve function and ease pain.
My mom is recovering from a broken vertebrae and my friend has ME/cfs (like I do). Neuromovement lessons can be adapted to suit people with very little ability to move, it can be so tiny, that people don't even see that you're moving.
Thank you for mentioning Paula, loved to hear about her work. I'll remember her name!
I'm really eager to do more with it. But for now I need to focus on my own health. Hopefully I will be able increase my workable hours in the future.
Thank you for the warm welcome, Kit! What a coincidence that you've studied in my hometown. Where do you live now?
This work is being used with horses and other animals too. And there's a method called Tellington T Touch that I heard mention for animals that seems to have some aspects in common with Neuromovement and Feldenkrais.
Neuromovement is developed on the basis of the Feldenkrais Method. Feldenkrais is much bigger, that's why there is more information available about it.
There are some very good videos that can introduce you to this work.
This video explains it in short:
A 1 hour documentary(around 52 minutes the part of working with animals start):
I love these methods. They've improved my quality of life and I honestly believe anyone could benefit from it. But it takes some getting used to because it is so different than excercise: its meant to be easy, gentle, slow. Pain and discomfort should be avoided. It's more about learning, giving your brain information to improve function. It's not about training muscles.
I'm enthuastic, can you tell? haha
Feel free to ask if you want to know more!
Hi, Elja - Nice to meet you! I've gotten to experience Feldenkrais and T Touch (one of my clients works in those modalities) - and they are so wonderfully healing! Love meeting others who do that kind of work.
Me. And pretty much everyone else here as far as I know lol. Give yourself credit, that's a lot - and it will make such an impact on people you care about! Good job.
Thank you for your encouraging words, I really apreciate it 😊
Hi Elja! Welcome to Solo School! <3 I see you've already connected with Paula James and her movement work, so I'm hoping you two will have lots to share.
I lived in Groningen in 2010-2012 for about a year and a half while doing an Erasmus Mundus program at the university. I loved so many aspects of the city, it's such a special place (albeit a bit wet ).
I'd love to know more about your work as you spend more time here. Welcome!
I’ve run my own graphic design and web development agency-of-one for the last 15+ years. But after multiple years of burnout and an ADHD diagnosis at 50, I’m starting something new that is more aligned with my brain: an offering to help solo business owners who are stuck trying to make their own website. I’m designing a supportive, non-judgmental process to help move people out of shame and guilt into a successful launch so they can continue to flourish.
My current hyperfixation? Making a Halloween costume for my 10-year-old son.
(p.s. I’m new here. Free — for now. I dig the idea but just couldn’t do another Meta community.)
Hey Matt,
Wow! Sounds very interesting and intense! Maybe you can show a picture when you're done? It sounds intriguing as well.
Last year I did make her Sandy Cheeks costume, though! Love a good crafty project.
Please show off the costume when you're done! (or in the middle!)
- How do I know when it is done?
- People keep telling me to stop trying to make it perfect, but I don't want to publish 💩 - what do?
- What does my website need?
- When will my website actually be finished?
- Which software should I use that will give me the features I'm after without breaking the bank?
I am based in Atlanta, GA, and I'm figuring out my next step by looking around to see what problem people seem to have and what I can solve (at least that is what advice I seem to be reading and hearing everywhere).
I'm an avid reader (any suggestions for books are welcome!) and I am just starting today my hand at a new hobby of pencil drawing.
I'm learning to draw too right now. What resources are you using? Would be happy to share.
I'm also reading Atmosphere (good so far) and just finished How to Sell a Haunted House, which will be your new favourite book if haunted puppets possessing people is a sub-genre of horror you enjoy. (TW: parents of adult children are unalived in this one.)
Best place for most ND folx to start when they want to do something new is actually to figure out what you like to do that other people might value. I'll see if I can drop the skills training in here at some point today, but a good place to start is just brain dumping out everything you're good at and thinking
1. What do I want to do more of?
2. Is that something that some people value?
3. Am I better than a beginner at it?
And go from there!
Currently, I'm using a book I found on the bookshelf, titled "How to Draw Anything."
Okay, I normally don't do horror, but I will have to check this one out, lol. And I'll check out Atmosphere.
Thank you for your guidance! I shall begin my brain dumping immediately
Oh! I have one like that called "You'll be able to draw by the end of this book" haha
Those two recommendations are very different, but both enjoyable. Have fun!
I am the founder of Radical Revelations and the Flow & Grow Collective. I am passionate about the intersections of ethical leadership, metaphysical spirituality, and giving a crap about our planet & the beings on it. I'm also a professional vocalist in my band Sol Simpatico. I live near Portland, OR. I am working on growing my business, getting on more stages, and clarifying my message. My current hyperfixation is replaying Persona 5 Royal on the Switch and trying to be better at flossing at night!
Welcome!
Thanks! Glad to be here (and am going to have to build it into my routine to remember this exists.
You can also download the Moodle mobile app and get push notifications when there are posts here
And I, too, enjoy saving everyone from fascism and sourdough lol
I'm also finding that, especially around here (it may be the same other places), chosen family and local communities are turning out to be more in line with core beliefs than blood relatives, and I want to surround my daughters with strong role models for all aspects of their lives. We need the village, so we need to BE the village!
I have recently found and am a part and contributer to my village down here in Dallas, TX. I call it the Matriarchy, bc it's me and two other moms who are creating shared resources, starting and growing businesses, and doing so with our kids by our sides. It is the most heart healing thing I have experienced and can't wait to continue to grow with these humans
My name is Ray (he/him), and I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA. Currently I work a 9-5 J-O-B that I kinda enjoy the work, but doesn't pay the bills or give enough PTO. I've been in tech support and training of some sort for the past 25+ years. Over the past 5ish years I've tried so many things to get out of the 9-5 rut - life coach, grief coach, DFY tech support for entrepreneurs, even a YouTube channel/Podcast. Nothing stuck and I've felt....a way....about it. Plus been left with so much debt due to trying the NT way to do these things and failing, that I just feel stuck. I still want to do something different, but I have so much trauma from the last 5 years I don't even know what, let alone how.
As for my current hyperfixation - thanks to the FB doom scroll I happened across a sponsored post of a self described nerdy pop-country-folk artist named Grace Morrison. You know, those sponsored posts that say "Let me send you a free CD of my music, just pay postage!" In this case, I'm glad I did - it's super awesome and I've been listening to it on repeat for the last week! She's definitely our (ND) people, too. Here's her website: https://www.gracemorrison.com/
I'll definitely check out Grace, too!
For now, Ray, we give you permission to just be and not figure anything out. You're welcome here as you are, while you sort through things and find your next brilliant idea. You've had some really great ones, so frankly, it's only a matter of time! ❤️
I'm with you on the last five years being traumatic. I've had my own reasons that differ from yours, but I know the feeling of being stuck and of being in debt. It's hard. It got me into therapy for the first time in my life, and that helped me a lot. It led me to an ADHD diagnosis at 50, which was not on my BINGO card. (Sounds like you're way ahead of me there.)
All that is to say, I feel for you, I'm pulling for you, and now I've listened to "Gloria," and I'm hooked. ❤️
I'm glad you're hooked to Grace's music. She is really epic, and proof that not everything pushed on us by the algorithm (FB Sponsored posts) is all bad.
I'm Sarah (she/her), a copywriter, creative writer and brand photographer based in Agassiz, BC. I'm originally from the UK and Malta though so funny accent warning right here!
Right now I'm in a kind of transition. I've just opened up my niche from creative service providers and personal brands to now also include authors and literary brands. I'm hoping to get myself some editing qualifications and start mentoring authors, as well as helping them market their brand with website copy and content (and brand photos if they're based in the same area!).
Hmmm, current hyperfixation... Disobedient Business Co.'s Get Shit Done Hub (https://disobedientbusiness.com/get-shit-done-hub). It has totally changed the way I work through my week and get my stuff done and I'm loving it!
And ooooooo on the GSD Hub, I get new planner vibes and those are always fun!
So happy to see you here 😊
Lovely to meet other healers, there is a deep need for this work in the world.
I am the human behind the Healthy Humaning movement. A revolutionary way of being human, and being human with other humans that will fundamentally change the world. I'm about halfway between DC and Richmond, VA, where I've live pretty much my entire life except for a brief stint in Vegas.
Up next for me is revisiting all of the original ideas I've had over the last 4.5 years that I let people talk me out of and figuring out if I still want to do them and what "my way" will look and feel like.
I don't really feel like I have a hyperfixation atm, except maybe how many different things I want to be doing without enough time and other resources to do it all. 😂
Also, yall, Deana is one of our Solo School coaches! So if you're ever in our private community, you can get to know her there, too. Consider her work fully endorsed by us ❤️
I have also reached out to my coven to see about doing group work with you
Paxton now has 1008 followers, and I'm happy to report I'm one of them. Corgis rule!
Current hyper fixation is Visible Patching because I ripped my favorite jeans trying to carry a steam mop and plant baskets home from an estate sale.
And welcome!
Now the idea just needs to move out of my mental to-do list and into real life sometime this year, lol.
Nice to "meet" another freelance content writer! Have you been able to niche down? As someone who has ADHD, I find it's hard to, I'm guessing, due to fear of missing out, and spending time looking for clients. I'd rather be researching and writing.
I'm an ADHD and Menopause Coach, and the Founder of Blissfully ND Wellness, based in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
I completed the NAP program earlier this year while building my business, and was a critical component to getting all my ducks in a row.
Some ducks were still quacking away... so I decided to switch systems, and is naturally (for me) my current hyperfixation. Check out IVOREY.IO
I'm always looking to connect with practitioners who offer complementary services, for referral and collaboration.
Hi Ammara! So good to see you here
This work spans more than money.
I've worked with client's inner child to get them to a place of integration and safety, and then promotions came.
I've worked with clients on their spiritual practices, the immaterial realm, and then they became the top 9% in their industry. It's been an incredible journey and I am always in awe of who people become when they expand into their stewardship, purpose, and being.
Where my next steps are taking me: I am building my email list and free community here https://therachmarie.com/ - and am currently taking clients and pressing into my own upper limits with designing a 1:1, 3 month container: The Expansion Portal.
I love networking and if you want to connect, I would love to get to know you. You can email me at: rachael@therachmarie.com
Thanks for reading! Sending you your blessings across all timelines, that they may find you in this lifetime.
And so it fkn is babe.
I’m a psychic medium, Master Reiki Healer, empowerment coach, writer, and total word witch. I’ve been writing books, poems, and songs for years…nothing published yet, but that’s one of my next steps.
My business, A Fire in Her Soul, is all about helping women reclaim their power, remember their magic, and step unapologetically into their fire. I channel spirit including Mama Gaia herself to offer meditations, guidance, coaching programs, and personal growth practices that are fun, transformational, and totally revolutionary. I spend my days weaving soul medicine, helping women remember who they are, and lighting fires of confidence, self-love, and freedom everywhere I go. I’m a triple fire sign in my big three …but actually I am a powerhouse with eight fire signs in my natel chart. I am also a tea drinker, and someone who believes in turning every scar into stardust. My work is heart-led, compassionate, and deeply rooted in the belief that every person carries their own spark of divine light, and it’s my joy to help you remember yours.
I’m the founder of Ori’Ani™, a multidimensional soul medicine currently in trademark. It works for 72 hours after each session, moves through all seven planes of existence, and restores balance, clarity, and power in ways that are totally next-level. ✨
I live in magical Colorado, surrounded by mountains and crystals. Right now, I’m rereading the A Discovery of Witches series by Deborah Harkness, stirring intentions into yet another pot of African peanut stew (obsession confirmed), and rebranding my website so it finally reflects the magic I bring into this beautiful world. 💫
My partner and I are both in transition in our middle age. We were both let go from our jobs in March and have been going through a mini crisis, having been in our careers for close to 20 years. Because we've struggled so much in the past at regular jobs with discrimination, we've decided to go into business together. With his expertise in web development and mine in design and finance, we want to offer web site/brand design with a focus on small businesses and organizations. We want to attract therapists, community members, and neurodivergent people.
We're based near Chicago.
Our next step is to write out a business plan and marketing strategy along with branding.
My current hyperfixation is home improvement! I love interior design and working with my hands on building/designing.
Thanks for reading!
I'm finishing up a course for emotional regulation for moms going through divorce/family court and co-parenting with an abusive ex.
My hyperfocus is finishing this course and then completing more training so I can offer my clients remote EEG neurofeedback at home. I love to learn. I'm obsessed with experiencing epiphanies, when my brain makes all of the connections, recognizes the patterns and solves the mysteries.
I'm based in Novi Sad, Serbia (yes, the Balkans!).
My next steps: expanding from Russian-speaking clients to English-speaking ones, and continuing my ICF coaching certification journey.
Current hyperfixation: House MD. Yes, in 2025. No regrets.
P.S. I've been reading through everyone's intros and I'm genuinely fascinated by the niches here — neuromovement practice, shame-free website launches, audiolessons... The specificity! The creativity! It's like collecting little beads of "oh, THAT'S a thing someone can do." This community already feels like my people.
I can't seem to find an ordinary "Post" button, that's why I am posting this a reply to your intro, Cheryl. BTW, I have been reading your email newsletter for quite some time, thank you for your knowledge and insights!